We learn more from failure than success. The recent movie “21″,  although a poorly constructed movie, has a good line or two. Kevin Spacey’s character says that the trip to Vegas is “business -  they are not gambling.” He makes the distinction that “gambling is emotional.” When the main character gets emotional he loses everything. Business is far too often gambling. An act of personal reflection manifested into a business full of the founder’s emotions. True business must be emotionless in execution. An exception to this rule is the need for true leaders of business to be emotional when it comes to following ethical, moral, and spiritual norms. True leaders will infuse emotion into the business to protect employees or perpetuate philosophical principles. If failure comes out of these emotional decisions then the world will be better off with a little less efficient businesses. Enron, WorldCom and Bear Stearns could have used some righteous emotions from their leaders. Our business failures should not be processed emotionally. If a business person processes emotionally then he or she will react emotionally and often times produce an emotion instead of a product. Remember we fail 9 out of 10 times (Robert Kyosaki). If we failed 70% of the time we could play professional baseball or become a meteoroligist.   Failure is essential to reveal what does not work. Sometimes that is 90% of the battle. Step back and put your emotions aside and embrace failure.AH